Baysangurov-Hernandez added to Golovkin-Stevens card
A fight between former WBO junior welterweight beltholder Zaurbek Baysangurov and Freddy Hernandez has been added to the Gennady Golovkin-Curtis Stevens card on Nov. 2.
read moreLem’s latest: Cotto-Rodriguez draws more than 1.5 million viewers
Miguel Cotto’s third-round stoppage of Delvin Rodriguez ranks as the highest drawing cable fight of 2013 so far.
read moreRound by round: Cotto drops, stops Rodriguez in third round
Follow RingTV.com’s live blog of tonight’s junior middleweight third-round knockout by three-division titlewinner Miguel Cotto over Delvin Rodriguez.
read moreCotto 153.2 pounds, Rodriguez 154
Miguel Cotto and Delvin Rodriguez weighed 153.2 and 154 pounds, respectively, in advance of their junior middleweight fight on Saturday in Orlando, Fla.
read moreQ&A: Rodriguez says Cotto will be ‘easier’ than Wolak
Junior middleweight contender Delvin Rodriguez lists cutting his opponents among his specialties, and says that against Miguel Cotto “it’s going to definitely happen … As soon as I hit him good, he’s going to cut.”
read moreFrancisco Santana hopes to overcome career ‘stutters’
Francisco “Chia” Santana, who faces veteran gatekeeper Freddy Hernandez in a 10-round junior middleweight bout at the Chumash Casino in Santa Ynez, Calif., hopes to overcome career “stutters” as he did his childhood stutter.
read moreDoctor: Chavez withdrew to avoid father’s mistake
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.’s decision to not to face Brian Vera after suffering a cut during sparring was apparently motivated in part by his father’s 1996 bout against Oscar De La Hoya, which he lost by fourth-round knockout after a sparring wound over his left eye opened early and bled profusely.
read moreChavez Jr.’s cut postpones Vera fight
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. apparently suffered a cut over his right eye during sparring, which will force the postponement of his Sept. 7 super middleweight bout with Brian Vera.
read moreLem’s latest: Bradley-Marquez, Alvarado-Provodnikov, Pacquiao-Rios tourney?
The upcoming bouts in October veaturing Juan Manuel Marquez versus Tim Bradley and Mike Alvarado against Ruslan Provodnikov, followed by the Manny Pacquiao-Brandon Rios fight in November, could lead to a round robin between the welterweights and 140 pounders.
read moreAndrade: ‘I will be crowned champion’ versus Martirosyan
Demetrius Andrade on fellow unbeaten 154-pound contender Vanes Martirosyan, who he fights on Sept. 7: “I was a 2008 Olympian and he made it in 2004. I will show him that if I was around in 2003 and 2004, he would not have made the team.”
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